9th International Posture Symposium

Postural control involves controlling the body's position in space for the dual purposes of stability and orientation and is fundamental to everything we do. It emerges from an interaction of the individual with the task and the environment. Over the past decades, research into posture and balance control and their disorders has hugely shifted and broadened. Our understanding of the underlying neural and sensorimotor mechanisms is changing and will continue to change, in response to emerging research in this field. The tradition of posture symposiums in Slovakia started in 1971 as a second symposium of the International Society of Posturography established in 1969 (now International Society of Posture and Gait Research, ISPGR). A new series of Posture Symposium held in Smolenice Castle started in 1992 focusing on vestibular-proprioceptive interaction for body orientation in space and in 1994 with focus on sensory interaction in posture and movement control. Since then, the symposium has continued in 2003, 2006, 2008, 2011, 2015, and 2018. 9th International Posture Symposium was held in the Congress Center of Slovak Academy of Sciences in Smolenice Castle, Slovakia, on September 10-13, 2023. The symposium was opened with the keynote lecture given by prof. Lena H. Ting from Emory University and Georgia Institute of Technology, Atlanta, USA. The symposium offered an opportunity for researchers, clinicians and scientists in the field of human motor control to share their ideas from various points of view and provided a place not only for fruitful scientific discussions, but also for pleasurable social ambience and informality.